THESE are the startling images which show how entire towns have simply disappeared in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region.

Thousands of people have been left homeless and hundreds of others are either dead or left with horrific injuries and burns as a result of suspected chemical attacks by government forces against its own people. .

Amnesty International has revealed the result of an investigation into attacks on civilians in the remote Jebel Marra region of Darfur this year.

Its report – Scorched Earth, Poisoned Air – reveals how suspected chemical weapons have been repeatedly used in the area in 2016.

According to Amnesty, between 200 and 250 people are believed to have died as a result of the attacks – many of them very young children.

The organisation said it has gathered horrific evidence of repeated use of what are believed to be chemical weapons against civilians, by Sudanese government forces in one of the most remote regions of Darfur.

Its investigation indicates at least 30 likely chemical attacks have taken place in the Jebel Marra area since January 2016, the most recent of which took place this month.

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Sudan was launched into civil war in 2003 when government forces were accused of oppressing the non-Arab population.

The civil war which followed gained worldwide attention and left hundreds of thousands of people displaced.

Amnesty said the world has stopped paying attention and atrocities are continuing to this day.

In January this year, Sudanese forces launched a large-scale military offensive in Jebel Marra against the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) who they accuse of ambushing military convoys and attacking civilians.